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US 5,208,893 AGranted
Optical fiber splice tray and splice holder
AssigneeRaynet Corporation
InventorsMark McCall, Thomas Wong, Marc F. Moisson
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Abstract
An optical fiber splice tube holder includes a plurality of torsion bars and cantilever bars which provide a resilient retaining force for an optical fiber splice container to be retained therein. The use of torsion bars helps distribute stress generated by a spring force of the fiber splice member holder about a large amount of material so as to achieve an efficient spring construction so that a plurality of splice holders can be accommodated in a reduced space on a fiber storage tray.
Claims11
An optical fiber splice holder, comprising:
- first and second separated and elongated torsion bars;
- a first member extending outward from the first torsion bar and a second member extending outward from the second torsion bar, the members extending outward along a direction away from a plane interconnecting the first and second torsion bars, the first and second torsion bars and members having a stiffness and resilience and being sized and being oriented such that a variety of different sized optical fiber splice containers can be resiliently retained therebetween;
- third and fourth separated and elongated torsion bars, the third torsion bar being in line with the first torsion bar, the fourth torsion bar being in line with the first torsion bar;
- a third member extending outward from the third torsion bar and a fourth member extending outward from the fourth torsion bar, the third and fourth members extending outward along the direction away from the plane interconnecting the torsion bars;
- the first and second torsion bars and first and second members being sized and oriented and having a stiffness and resilience such that one end of a variety of sized optical fiber splice containers can be resiliently retained therebetween, the third and fourth torsion bars and third and fourth members being sized and oriented and having a stiffness and resilience such that an opposite end of the variety of different sized optical fiber splice containers can be resiliently retained therebetween.
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A splice tray, comprising:
- a substrate having a plurality of longitudinal cut out section pairs oriented in-line end-to-end, the pairs being oriented in a stack configuration so as to be substantially parallel to one another so as to form a plurality of separated, elongated and flexible substrate torsion bar pairs, each torsion bar having a flexible cantilever spring member extending outward from a plane of the substrate, each pair of torsion bars and their associated flexible cantilever spring members defining an optical fiber splice container holding section therebetween.
An optical fiber splice holder, comprising:
- a substrate forming a fixed cavity;
- a stem extending upward from a floor of the cavity, the stem including flexible sections extending downward from an upper section thereof, the upper section and flexible sections of the stem being rotatable about an angle of at least about 90.degree. so that at one angular position of the stem the flexible sections are oriented so as to be substantially in line with a longitudinal axis of a splice container to be retained, to allow insertion or removal of the container into or out of the cavity, a second angular position which is offset from the first position resulting in the flexible members being oriented so as to be substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.